The Sun. — London, England, 1818-05-01 00:00:00

PARIS. The foltnitingla TransTation of a Pan+blet which is now ptivatcly citculating in Paris, and a copy of which we last night received, from a Gen tleman just arrived in town. THE MASK FALLEN OFF:--A DIALOGUE. I was walking, on the Tin&ries one day last week, o❑ that beautiful Terrace which commands the Seine. The sight of the Palace where our Deputies assemble recalled to my mind the stormy Meetings of which I had so often been a witness, and I gave way to the reflections which the ,recollection ex cited. I conceived, said I to myself, that legitimate autho rity finds enemies among those who owe their fortune to the favour of INAeoLcoN, and whose brilliant hopes vanished with his power; I conceived also that the Children of the Revolution, nourished by the false doctrines which it engen dered, wished to exceed the limits of a judicious liberty, to possess themselves of the rights of the. Crown, and to lay the foundation of a. real, in order to escape an imaginary des potism : Iconceived, besides, that minds inclined to meta physical speculations are too much occupied by abstract maxims ; despise facts, disdain experienee,'"and without any regard to manners, customs, prejudices, or passions, pretend to govern the world by the power of words and the arts of syllogism. These reveries are inevitable; they have.forfoun /lotion, interest, jealousy and party pride, always tyrannizing • over mankind. But how can I explain the firm opposition of those who never cease to call themselves the firm supporters of Monarchy? Their foolish resistance offends the Ring, draws upon them the contempt of the nation, and becomes a powerful obstacle to the re-establishment of social order. I *vas thus thinking, when M. N. met me. " Well," said he, as soon as he saw we, " what do you say of the Ministry ? nothing sacred is regarded by them ; all their propositions ,contain a manifest violation of THE CHARTER. This Charter • was g4ven to us as a pledge of safety in the ihip-wreck of our ancient Institutions: we are all apprehensive of seeing it wrested from us---• You are silent—you smile.—yon who, not long ago, maintained that depriving us of the Charter would be the prelude to the ruin of the Monarchy 1" " I smile,' re plied 1, " at your ardent zeal for the Charter, and that re publican susceptibility which renders you so suspicious of the slightest movements of the Ministers. It was not long ago Cr-at you were full of hope of seeing those Institutions ,Sourish again whlah time impaired and political revolutions Save annihilated ; you shudder with horror even at the idea df a representative Government. I blame your infatuation ; I believed von incorrigible; and now you induce me to doubt *inch yonr zeal for the Charter, much as formerly I relied upon yonr opposition to it." " Your surprize," answered lie, ")s natural. lam going to speak without disguise—hear me: tau must remember. that in manifesting so great an aversion to the Charter, I yielded to necessity. My name, my fortune, perhaps even whateve'r feeble abilities I might possess, would bare procured me the votes of my friends.; they would have taken me to the Chamber of 1815, and would have confided to me the defence of their interests,or rather of their prejudices. Ntirtured in idleness, at the extremity of their province, Unskilled consequently in the affairs of the world. they knew neither men nor things ; they will never comprehend that it is- not' in human power to revive what existed thirty years ago. I flattered their illusion without sharing in it : they bad given me their votes, ought I to have deprived them of hope? Besides I stood' in need of friends—Of those who would praise me, avid I was not popular with the "Multitude, who always-distrust ancient privileges. I was obliged to di's- . seaside.. I decried the Chamber because my friends were against it ; I spoke in favour of the Ancient Government, be cause my friends required its revival : but I knew that they required an impossibility; I was . not ignorant that time changes the interests and ruanuvrs of a people, and that po litical institutions foi tired by men are as transitory as them selves. I have fulfilled my obligations to my friends; . 'now I obey the dictates of reason. I have now explained to you my conduct, and that of the eulightenid men of My Party." 4 ' What an admirable policy!" exclaimed I. " What ! that ardour in defence of your ancient privileges, those struggles against the spirit of the times, that moral proscription, that cum:haunt star: cast upon the glory of our armies, those in- Sults, those menaces against the possessors of national property, all this clamour, nothing but a pretence to delude the credulity of honest countrymen, Who believed that your declamations would change the necessary course of events ! But hare you not reflected that you have raised opinion against you, and that you have rendered that terrible ordon- Dance; which will he the destruction of your power, indis pensable ? Ry this state policy, the Ministry whom you so fu riously abused, end Vie nation which you accused of weaknesi, hare conciliated all the friends of order and public freedom. You have laboured to bring it into disgrace, and your efforts have only increased its popularity." " I do not deny," said be, " that the Ordunnance of the .sth ad September pre vented the execution of our plan : experience plainly spews it. We ought to have acted with more caution ; but there were among us some ttnruly members, whoSe inconsiderate zeal often frustrates the best constructed plan. They rushed s o rsearA ;—we'were obliged to support theni, because it ryas our m3x 4 ru never to abandon our friends, whateversthey said or did ; and, by the way, it is by that political conduct that we arerobliged to unite ourselves more closely together. As to the kit, yoU would he wrong indeed if you thought that the Ord'onnance.of -the Sth of September bas ruined all our hopes. :Whilst we endeavoured to extend our power, and: the Tribune remembers the discourse which seemecito be dictated by blind s hatred, we - pursued with uninterrupted serenity the accomplishment of , our plait ; and we excited the less. con-- tempt, Res -the crowd, deceived by the appearance of the deli rium witbswhich they believed us to be affected, did not think thatswe were capable of forming a plan and estimating its effects: We acted like Brutus, who counterfeited madness while he designed the ruin of the Tarquins. Was any action in politics more deeisive ever known than this entire renewal of all the Administrations, effectedin less than three months? All its agents, civil and military, were replaced by our in struments. We regarded neither age, services, not capacity, nor even a great number. known by Royalty. We were im pressed with this axiom —that, in great affairs, half-measures are always fatal: thus we could truly say, that we had con quered France. Our influence is permanent ; the Osdonr nance of tite.sth of September has given Ministers merely an ephemeral success." " I agree," replied I, " that you have refuted and- defeated many things in a short time, and that Ministers have not effaced your footsteps, but this remark is, in my opinion, the best eulogium on their moderation and pru dence. Tour impatient eagerness would not allow you to be prudertt. You have 'hewn your power fora day, as spendtbrift3 lavish aria] inheritance. Exampleeould seduce you: the Mi nisters have resisted temptation. They hare adopted men of your choice, with the hope that time and a sense of-duty would 'render them faithful subjects. If then they have discarded some, it was hecanse they provbd to he irreeoncileable Enemies. The intention of Ministers was to fortify the State, not to shake it to its foundation.' "You characterize as prudence," said he, "what, in fact, is mere imbecility. Without doubt sound policy directed the Ministers not to recommence, in versely, Les Epuratiwis de 1815. So violent a movement in the midsst of party contentions produced an exelosion which might have occasioned the fall of the Throne, and the ; dis memberment of France : the Ministers did not desire such a catastrophe. They ought, then, in some measure, to support our work: • By this means they gain a crowd of Subaltern Agents, Wile are indebted to us for being so,but who wish not to commit themselves to the hazard of a Revolution.— To this extent the most shallow policy finds nothing to censure in the conditct of Ministers ; but we soon saw where the danger lay; and by a tactic still more sure, as it accorded wonderfully with the opinion which the multitude had formed of our character, we obliged the Mini sters to place in superior stations, men whom the loss of their ancient situations, hatred of the new order of things, hope of a change for the better,and above all their engagements, ren dered implacable enemies of the Ministerial system. We wished to consider Royalists as among our Party. All those who adopted our doctrines were sure of our support. We paid no regard to the rank, fortune, or even morality of in dividuals : exceptions Would have been dangerous; we wish every one enlisted under our hauliers to be esteemed like a Roman citizen of old. At the least menace of Ministry we made them bear these exclamations—' The Royalists are treated like Spartan slaves:-they are dishonoured and uirseented;---and .the enemies of the King find protec tion and honour only at the throne.' By the spell contained in these words we rendered impotent the anger of Ministers; at our voice, the arm, as if lifted to strike us, fell as if paralysed. The Ministers, I knew, were not duped by this finesse; but, to prevent the triumph of the enemies of the throne, they found themselves under the necessity of Favouring those who were. most active in their endeavours to overturn it. The number of our instruments preserved their Chiefs, and we reigned with almost despotic sway." " I adMire," rejoined I, " your dissimulation, and the excellence of the springs which you put in action ; but I fear, that all this skill will not produce any useful result." "You are very quick in your inferences," replied be, "I hare as yet only developed part of our plan; permit me to proceed-. These Chiefs, whom the Ministry were forced to spare, unit ed by interest and common danger, conversed together in secret, acted in concert, fomented the spirit of Opposition in the Provinces, and constituted a distinct Government in the midst of Government itself, whose maxims and politics were altogether contrary to those of the legal authority. The most ardent discovered themselves; they , were wrung, they injured us and exposed; themselves : it is not always in our power to protect them from the vengeance of Ministers. Others, more subtle, affected to he at comity with us ; they bad the art of appearing to attach themselves to the King ; they seemed to obey him from a sense of duty, even against their own con viction; they, however, took care to apprize our friends of the hardship of such a sacrifice, mildly exhorting them to be patient, rebuking their errors with paternal lenity. In tht mean time, the middling class, which is alWays wounded in its self-love and interests by a thousand little vexatious which the Law cannot describe, dies off in anger, attaches itself to the weakness and ignorance of the Ministeres, who accuse us, and in so doing only display their own impotence. Hence this discontent in the Ministerial Party, , those divi sions which have so much diminished its energies, and which have niaitifested themselves, and wilt still du so, on every new propositon that Ministers may bring . forward."—" Phus," ,said I," you exult in the hatred you hare inspired, and you do not fear to increase it, provided the re• action shall overturn the Ministers—believe me, your perse .verance will tire them at last. They will perceive that a Go vernment cannot be in greater danger than when even those to whom its preservation is entrusted combine against it. They will break the slight springs of your influence, and you will fall with itidelible shame, for having without an object prolonged a struggle prejudicial to the State and to your selres " The Ministry," said he, " will not dare to attempt any thing against those of our friends who pursue our system with mildness and patience. Observe, they offer no resist ance. Their opposition to us is ' every day and all day long but it never manifests itself openly ; the whole of its conduct is malevolent; but every act in itself may pass as innocent.- Let a man stab another, the Tribu nals will not hesitate to condemn him ;—let him wound him in a thousand places, the'Judges will be very dextrous if they can catch him. On the- leait menace .you will hear repeated on all sides, they persecute the Royalists !' In an instant the storm will subside. The Ministers are not Royalists on our plan ; but are so at bottom, and they wish that none may suspect them to be otherwise. Their extreme susceptibility on this head unfolds to you the secret-of our strength." " This secret," replied,], is not in favour of the Mitiistry ; we live in a time when men win be judged of according to t heir actions, and not : teetheir words. Then your- talisman will have lost its. virtue ethose•Words will not • have the ex. traordinary effect of makingth:Fttnetionaries who pronounee them be regarded by the Ministers whom they betray. But let us end this Chapter. ' Infoim me how you can recohcile . with your boasted ; hive of thee Charter, that 'hatred ,of'those Ministers, who certainly are nut more the - enemiee of the Charter than they are of the Throne ? Perhaps this lsostility against men is t;illY, in otbee,words, a war about plates.":— " Do not attach too much importance to what we say," said he; " the truth is, that we donor hate the Ministers; we believe that they mean well ; we will even. agree, if , you desire it, that in difficult circumstances:they-have shewn some talents and strength of mind; but we do not approve of their system, and we wish to occupy their stations, to make our own prevail. Their popularity is an obstacle to our designs; we strive to ruin them in the opinion of the peopld. To hold with them, and reject their principles, would he inconsistent. The populace do not trouble themselves with oppositions on doctrines;, but they are interested in wars between men ; but you know very well that doctrines fall with those who defend them." [The remainder of Ais Work to-morrow.] CORN-EXCHANGE, MAY' I . --We had a few fresh Arrivals this morning ; the Wheat trade was very dull, at Monday's prices, and, except in fine ar ticles, scarcely any" sales made ; real Fine Barley supports its price ; the sale of Oats was brisk and full as dear ; Beans support their price; in other articles co alteration. THEATRICAL REGISTER. • . _ 'Perforined Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DRLTRY-LANK.—(stii time), The Jew of Malta: Barahas, Mr. Kean ; Abigail, Mrs. •I3artlry. After which (Ist time), The Mountain Chief. THE:tToE ROYAL, CO VENT-GA RDEN.—The Devil's Bridge: Count Bt lino, Mr. Braham; Rosaleina, Miss Stephens. After which (3d time), La Chasse. To which was added, Who's My Father ? • MAILS. Anatveo—l Dublin, 1 Waterford, I Holland, I Gotten burgh, I Brazil. DUE—I Waterford, I Hawburgh. Sr. PUMP Aso .TAmes —Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, East India, and South Sea Houses. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 22 minutes after 12. I Evening, 47 minutes after 12. THE SUN. 1101,E31 QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1818. The Paris. Papers of Tuesday last, which were due this morning, have not arrived. We this.day present to our Readers a long, ex tract from a . Pamphlet, which excites a high inte rest in the political circles of Paris, and which was brought .to us by a private friend. As we did not receive it till late la4t night, we trust that allowance' will be made for the probable errors of a hasty translatiou: We shall give the remainder, which will 'artionni to about the same length, to-morrow. As it is at present privately circu lated in Paris, it has become the more interest ing, under the apprehension that it may pro bably be suppres'sed, if it even should , be deemed, in its general substance and tendency, favourable to Ministers, as it revives opinions and alludes to events that it would be better to bury in oblivion. The length of the Extract, and the late hour at which we this day received a Letter from our valuable Correspondent at Paris, obliges us to defer the latter till to-morrow. It will be seen by our Parliamentary Report, that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has, for the present, given up his proposed measure re specting deposits to be made by Country Bankers, as a security for the issue by them, of I/. and 2/. notes. PIHACY.—Core of Cork, April 2G.—The brig Alicia Hill, of Liverpool, CRAWFORD, Master, from Sierra Leone, with bides and ivory, for Li verpool, arrived here this morning, after a passage of nine .weeks. On the Bth and 9th of January last she was plundered by two vessels, one .ft-briw. mounting 14 guns, 24-pounders, and the other a schooner, with one long gun amidships ; they bad both Spanish colours, and were reaving on the coast. They took the entire of the cargo, which was an assorted one, and . eitery articlebe, longing to the Master and people, together with their clothes, and every thing valuable they could find. They alsp took the ship's stores, sails, pro.. visions, one anchor and cable, and sundry other. things, too nutnerotis to mention ; they likewise took :he ship's papers—and she now sails by a letter from the Governor of Sierra Leone; • The Company's ships Streatham and William Pitt arrived qff Portland the 29th ult. They left Bengal the Sth December, St. Helena th e 25th February, and Ascension the Stb March. The Carnatic and Thomas Grenville, it is re ported, were to sail for England about the 20th January. Some German Papers came to band last night, from which the following is an extract :-- NAPLES, APRIL 7.—The King, our Sovereign, went as far as the Mole of Gaeta to meet his august brother,King Charles IV. of Spain. It is a very long time since the two brothers have had the pleasure of seeing each other: their first meet ing was extremely affecting. After having stopped twenty four hours at Caserta, , their Majesties arrived at Naples on the 3d. The next day-they appeared in public at the Theatre of St. Charles. An article from Frankfort, in a Flanders Mail, states that Mr. LAMB, the English Plenipotentiary to the Diet, has, by ihe express orders of his Covernment, delivered to Count LAS CASAS, who resides in the City of Frankfort, all the parcels, papers, letters, manuscripts, and 410- ..cuments, which were taken from the Count on board the vessel which conveyed him from the Cape of Good Hope to the Thames, An f ong these papers, which were sent from LondOn to the Count, are several remarkable pieces, even designs and plans drawn by NAPOLEON'S own hand, as well as a very long Report addressed by LAS CASAS to LUCIEN BUONAPARTE, OD the voyage to St. Helena, and the abode there. • • The Duke of WE4LINGTON was expected to leave Paris on Monday last, according_ to accounts received at Brussels. Count MUNSTER had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT yesterday. The Duke of RICHMOND find suite will shortly leave town for Csiiticfa':' Yesterday the QUEEN, the PR'INCE REGENT, and others of the Royal Fa"mily, dined with the Duke and Duchess of GLoucist - ER.In the even ing, after dinner, their Royal' Highnesses had an other party. The loyal stanzas which were sting and so Much applauded at the Mansion-house, on IVednesday, were the ready production of Mr. SWIFT. MR. CANNING. • • ..., -• • - April,lBl6' Liverpool, 23 ,1 At a Meeting, held here today, of , (: , 3 100 11 men in the Interest of the Right Hon- ' ll , -- osig CANNING, for the-purpose of taking inn o gi deration the propriety of preparing and s'g - Ti to Requisition to that Right Hon. Gentlein a- ,:erol ,heconte again a Candid a te a t the nex t Election, to represent this Borough in rdf meat, be ja HENRY BLUNDELL HOLLINSHEAD , O f; called to the Ch.iir, it was, on the :notion GLADSTONE, and seconded by Mr. A• DALE, Resolved Unanimously, ',Plat the 10,1 10 vi ing quisition be rlopyed, signed in the 1 . 0 0 " ); ;It, transmitted, by this day's g post, to JOHN 13° „ 1 ; -° 1 11 Esq. now in London, to b e by him Pie se—Ci Mr. CANNING : REQUISITION. 7'he Rig;lt flonourhble (41oRGE CANN I S 6 ' f otbf Six,--When you were called upon in 1812, on beha". of; Freemen of this Ancient and L o y a l B o rough, t i d self to be nominated a Candidate for the Itepresentati°ll9o in Parliament, our confidence rested on your distii)gti talents, and on the integrity of your public conduct. ) . 0 0 Since that period, when we had the honour to r etur r itp one of our Representatives by an unprecedented 04/ ap d these sentiments have been confirmed and strengthendri our experience of your zeal and unwearied exertions f 99 0 , interests of this ToWn, adds another motive to tb°sel3- which our original selection of you was founded. p ose We, therefore, in contemplati on o f an approa dji" o l4l , lutiOn of Parliament, now renew to you the sall' e 6- „,; tion ; and whilst we pledge to you the assurances o warmest support at the next General Election, tee 215 %0 0 express our convietion . , that should an opposition t o°ar f i siA be offered, you will 'be returned in the same tri°l' manner as before. With the greatest respect we have the honou r t° ,:tia- • Sir, your faithful and o bedient Ser— Liyerpool, April 23, 1818. (This Requisition, signed by 589 of the Friends Canning, was transmitted to London the saute eve z ' ia l tilsi o on Monday, the 27th in s ta n t, t h e Chairman f thc • received from Mr. Canning the following answer., MR. CANNING'S ANSWER. 4 islits London, April wt. Sia,—Mr. Bolton has not lost a mo ment in deliverrpo me the Requisition voted at the- Meeting held in the day before yesterday, over which ou ;resided. L •di It is needless for mi. to express the gratification have derived from so flattering a testimonial 1 ° 11 %,1 3 0 0 conduct, subscribed by so many o f th ose persons) upon - good opinion I set the highest value. to t he4l4li In the answer which I returned in the year 181 2 1 which Liverpool then did me the h onou r to make °P a : - 0 0 entreated the Freemen of that Ancient and IPP I or re-consider well their choice, before they t!eteru.in it B counter the trouble which might attend the carrYlog effect. th r g If, after two protracted and exp ens ive con °l ble inconvenience of another c o nt es t is outucg bedi ill ift minds, by any satisfaction vO.lich the} way anticiPt4; 1 , 1 7,1 renewal of my connection with upon the dissolaliTioi tests, e e 7l Parliament, it wouto ',mne me to hesitate in cusq with their requisition.. - '4214 With the deepest feelings, therefore, of resP ect L ' t : - e re o and aciinowlenginent, I t han o be rea,!., W41C14 C r '-- - 00 4e way take place, again to put myself entirely into I. lil. I have the lionottridb; - , IVith great esteem _Sir, your most obliged and faithful SellAP:ix - GEORGE COO , , To H. 13. Hollinshead;Es4. Cliairnpla of the Meetisig,Sie._ INDIA. " Right Bank of the Jumna in Camp, Oct' g74;1116 " We are now on our mai ch—,upposeilf, " tr ess first instance, to be-directed against the ar t ale of Gwalior, belonging to Seindia. The gre at of the campaign, however, is the eocire j ti a nihilation of the Pindarrees, a race of pi"" d ,, e A d scouudids, who have been annoying us 112 r years. ieoe' " The'whole..of the army now in the file Nev. sists of 10 divisions, each of about 10, 0 " - i 5 tO: We-are advancing from the three Preside uu- v e eve', wards the same point with the finest S ri." I perhaps heard of in India. The G o vern or , ' Ci sir ;gf is with our division, which is about 13, 0° with 60 pieces of cannon. The camp ftiv.ll° 00 : the of this division alone amount to 67,00 0 ' hs ye carriage of the baggage of our regiment, v v " t fig. 40 elephants and 400 camels ; every e1e1 ) ,, b3 4 /1 here two keepers, and every two camels one. 0 ' u ' ere t sr e are 37 officers present, among whom t h. , 4 - 5 tar o 810 servants ; every horse in the regime nt , 1- I . ) vid,, attendants, one as a groom, the other I° r: 0 11 grass—these alone amount to 1400, b e ' (y the for the mess, and 900 for the bazaar to ,ne , , :bo a; provisions ;• in all, for our regiment 9,5 , 00 followers, besides their wives, chil" re- o ,' o st The• Marquis of Hastings travels in t ;I:ftre li f princely style : be has 150 elephants, an i ` i , no irell mels, besides•state elephants splendidiY3c*—,l s (DP having surerb solid silver powders or e 35 4 -9 4ple their backs. There areuow 36 Rajahs the ' war, pendent Chieftains of various ranks on it ug, to pay their respects to the Margnis. 6° o — ro or them indeed are already . in camp. 'The 6°- teg General, in fact, is now as great a Moir. the Great Mogul was." eo ll ; CHIMNEY S it ' stacle to passing this bill is the imagine d ne " s ;01: Of coreing new chimnies_ betore they ar: or The operation consists of taking Piec es °' and fragments of brickswhich t h e workmen' building chitnnies, let fall down nu the siol'inSTdce of . 1 he' flue (when such exists), we i l !', 4o el 'stand, the cause of much pain to the infa nt to sweepers employed for the purpose. in o r,o' 0 1 prevent any core accutuulating, a very siniP ie trivance may be resorted to : a box.of the sam - o ca mensions of the flue is to he placed in it, a nd 1 0 10 ,* IA t o tbi 6 cor it up as the bricklayer places the brick ; the, lieces of mortar, &c. will fall, and thus 0° h oi will be formed. A model for this porP°so• , t>l t been deposited in the Committee House of Lords, with• models o conico , oos • p sweepin g c hi m ni,s.. • et - Co U , I let ' A k • 141 et , Fel .tit k r kfij kr.l ti t , l e4rii h t I fiv